promo LP ZAPPA / MOTHERS OF INVENTION “Absolutely Free” mono gatefold ’67 HEAR

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Artist:  THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

Title:   “Absolutely Free”

Label:   VERVE ~ # V-5013.  Monaural pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is yellow with black text, labeled “Disc Jockey Record”. 

Matrix number is etched in the dead wax of each side, as follows:

MG672 / MG673.

Year:  1967

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is nice VG to VG+ with nearly 100% of original gloss.  Overall the album has been played sparingly and handled with reasonably good care.  There is some minor scuffing and a few light hairline marks, but none are serious other than to produce a bit of light surface noise in places as you can hear in the two sound clips (beginning of each side) that are typical of the entire album.  No skips, jumps, or pops.  Nice clean labels. 

JACKET:  VG++ with nice bright artwork.  Reverse panel has “X” indentation at upper left corner to indicate this is a promotional jacket.  Inner and outer panels are nice and bright; ring/surface wear is minimal on the outer panels which is better than most examples of this non-laminated gatefold sleeve.  Seams and spine are fully intact with just a bit of light wear in places.  No writing, stickers, stains, or other defects.  A very fine jacket to accompany the rare and highly desirable promo disc.    

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Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Plastic People
• The Duke of Prunes
• Amnesia Vivace
• The Duke Regains His Chops
• Call Any Vegetable
• Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
• Soft Sell Conclusion  

Side Two:

• America Drinks
• Status Back Baby
• Uncle Bernie’s Farm
• Son of Suzy Creamcheese
• Brown Shoes Don’t Make It
• America Drinks & Goes Home

Review:

“Frank Zappa's liner notes for Freak Out name-checked an enormous breadth of musical and intellectual influences, and he seemingly attempts to cover them all on the second Mothers of Invention album, Absolutely Free.  Leaping from style to style without warning, the album has a freewheeling, almost schizophrenic quality, encompassing everything from complex mutations of "Louie, Louie" to jazz improvisations and quotes from Stravinsky's Petrushka.  It's made possible not only by expanded instrumentation, but also Zappa's experiments with tape manipulation and abrupt editing, culminating in an orchestrated mini-rock opera ("Brown Shoes Don't Make It") whose musical style shifts every few lines, often in accordance with the lyrical content.  In general, the lyrics here are more given over to absurdity and non sequiturs, with the sense that they're often part of some private framework of satirical symbols.  But elsewhere, Zappa's satire also grows more explicitly social, ranting against commercial consumer culture and related themes of artificiality and conformity.  By turns hilarious, inscrutable, and virtuosically complex, Absolutely Free is more difficult to make sense of than Freak Out!, partly because it lacks that album's careful pacing and conceptual focus.  But even if it isn't quite fully realized, Absolutely Free is still a fabulously inventive record, bursting at the seams with ideas that would coalesce into a masterpiece with Zappa's next project.”

(courtesy Steve Huey, allmusic.com).

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